Question about spawning headless instances

Arauta

Hello,

I'm making a game that players can group up in a lobby ,
and go explore some party member only dungeons .

I'm planning to make lobbies and dungeons run on different bolt instances ,
Is that possible ? If so , how do I spawn a server instance when I need them (a player enter dungeon...etc) ?

thanks !

stanchion

Yes, there are many orchestration solutions you can use like AWS PlayFab Servers 2.0 and AWS GameLift. We have examples and docs for each of these.

https://doc.photonengine.com/en-us/bolt/current/demos-and-tutorials/playfab-integration/overview

Arauta

thanks , i'll check them out .
And is it possible to do similar things on my server ?

stanchion

It is fairly trivial to do horizontal scaling on a single server. However you will run out of resources on that server inevitably and need more servers, and then less during down hours.